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Hi I'm kiwi Brett, I'm 54 years old and have around 30,000 sea miles sailing under my belt. I also built my own sailing catamaran in Brazil and lived on it for years working in the marine industry. I'm very keen to go home to NZ and can offer my experience to help deliver a yacht of any kind. Currently in NSW,Australia. E mail me bonecarver@yahoo.com

yesterday 3 of us took as much gravel as possible to get out for a play at journey's end, tapora and back along the kaipara hills road dodgy cross-winds at times but the rain stayed away a good hard 250km has done a lot to combat the locked-in syndrome and frustration at having to cancel a trip to murchison to see friends

ooohhh like a guzzi re-styled as a 916duc

Really aiming for simplicity and least modifications to a class boat possible. Had a deck mounted one on the 930 and had to remove anchor locker lid to use it whilst cruising but the 1020 split lid makes it a lot more practical. Prod will be removable with a single thumb turn screw at the back then just slips backwards out of the stem ring. While viat out of the water I'm adding a Bob stay tube to the knuckle but a heavy enough section prod can survive without one. (We had 19.7kts in 35kts on the 930 and ran a zero pretty tight with no breakages). However the 1020 is a fair bit heavier!

So I chopped and channeled the old bus with a bit of help from my friends, lockdown therapy. What started out as a relatively simple remove the back coaming job to make it easier to get in the dinghy got hijacked by "friends" who happened to turn up as I was setting up to finish the job and said Dont stop there, the transom is only 200 away! Me with grinder in hand, them on dock watching, result big hole in boat! Totally unprepared for the major but with some tips from people much cleverer than me and entertaining the whole pier who also offered plenty of free advice about 30 t

anzor would be the go-to followed by wakefields... https://www.anzor.co.nz/ https://www.wakefieldmetals.co.nz/fasteners/

Why would I want a prod on a 1020? Gennakers are just so hard to deal with on a family cruiser, there's all that pole carrying and clipping/unclipping, uphauls, downhauls, tweakers, wine glasses, death rolls and Chinese gybes.... oh wait... that's Spinnakers 😅

barry's point road harley let me take their new pan america 1250 out for a day long test-ride recently all the tradition harley 'character' features like; low power, poor handling, bad brake etc. were absent making it an extremely competent sports-tourer that in the right hands would scare the crap out of many sportbike riders smaller than my GSs with an engine tuned more for power than torque they seem to be selling well and future models should get better as minor issues are addressed https://www.advpulse.com/adv-news/2021-harley-davidson-pan-america-specs-unveiled

Hello Phoebe, I may be able to assist. I am an experienced offshore racing skipper/sailor and have my own blue water boat as well (currently in the Philippines, but due to make its way home starting in March or so next year). In the meantime I am looking for a ride back to NZ for Christmas. I am a New Zealander, fully jabbed (Moderna), and able to travel at short notice. Cheers Pete